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Kings / MGM Grand Extend "Frozen Fury" Contract

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Staff Writer
/ Los Angeles Kings

LOS ANGELES (September 27, 2013) – The Los Angeles Kings and Las Vegas-based MGM Grand Hotel & Casino have announced a new three-year contract to continue the hockey tradition of Frozen Fury at the MGM Grand Garden Arena, the two organizations announced today.

The new agreement guarantees that the Kings will play pre-season home games at MGM Grand through the 2016 season. This weekend, as part of Frozen Fury XV (15), the Kings “host” the New York Rangers on Friday at 7:30 p.m. and then “host” the Colorado Avalanche Saturday, Sept. 28 at 7 p.m. Both games are expected to sell out.

“This was an easy decision for the Kings to continue this great partnership,” said Kings President, Business Operations Luc Robitaille. “Our fans flock to Vegas for these games and make an entire weekend out of it. This is an event that we all circle on the calendar each September.”

MGM Grand President and COO Scott Sibella said, “Extending our partnership with the Kings provides our guests with another exciting three years of hockey here in the desert. As the Entertainment Authority on the Las Vegas Strip, there is no better place to watch a pre-season NHL game than at MGM Grand.”

The Kings first played at MGM Grand in 1997 and are 10-3-2 all-time in Frozen Fury games. Here is a look at the tradition of the Kings and Frozen Fury in the desert:

2012:Did Not Play

2011:KINGS 1 Colorado4

2010:KINGS 3 Colorado2

2009:KINGS 5 Colorado3

2008:KINGS 3 Colorado4 (SO)

2007:KINGS 3 Colorado2 (SO)

2006:KINGS 3 Colorado2

2005:KINGS 1 Colorado1 (OT)

2004:Did Not Play

2003:KINGS 3 Colorado1

2002:KINGS 6 Colorado5

2001:KINGS 4 San Jose3

2000:KINGS 4 Colorado5

1999:KINGS 4 Phoenix0

1998:KINGS 3 Colorado2

KINGS 4 Colorado5

1997:KINGS 4 Colorado3 (OT)

Follow the Kings Communications Department on Twitter @LAKingsPR and for more information on Frozen Fury visit www.mgmgrand.com.

The MGM Grand Garden Arena is home to concerts, championship boxing and premier sporting and special events. The Arena offers comfortable seating for as many as 16,800 with excellent sightlines and state-of-the-art acoustics, lighting and sound. Prominent events to date have included world championship fights between Evander Holyfield and Mike Tyson as well as Oscar de la Hoya vs. Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao vs. Juan Manuel Marquez; and concerts by The Rolling Stones, Madonna, Elton John, Bruce Springsteen, Paul McCartney, Bette Midler, George Strait, Janet Jackson, Phil Collins, Billy Joel, U2, Lady Gaga, Sting, Coldplay, Alicia Keys, Jimmy Buffett and the Barbra Streisand Millennium Concert. The MGM Grand Garden Arena also is home to the annual Academy of Country Music Awards, annual Billboard Music Awards and the Frozen Fury NHL pre-season game which features the Los Angeles Kings vs. Colorado Avalanche.